Distillery Profile

Taste rating:3/:4

Region: Highland

Gingery and peaty. Perfumed.

Not tried this as yet but according to the blurb it has 'a rich golden honey colour with a balanced medium body. Sweet and spicy with a subtle hint of vanilla, tones of fresh oak and ripe fruit.'

I think Glen Garioch is a great whisky, very different to any other, particularly fragrant with many Scotch characters but not quite like a Scotch, an enigma.

[Blind tasting note from RJ during the SFWC:

Light and pleasing, a leafy-hay note with exhaust fumes or cordite. Water pulls out more floral notes of Parma violets and lilac and a little sulphur. Score 8/10]

A little more nutty and fruity.

[Blind tasting note from RJ during the SFWC:

Heather, honey, ginger, mead overall with some green leaves and solvents, this becomes caramelised, balanced and good. Quite thick on the tongue, mercurial, all stimulating with a stem ginger swallow and cocoa and liquorice finish that fades to burnt toffee. Very nice, a peaty reminder in the glass.

Score 9.5/10]